The winner? “Heeeeerrre’s Johnny!” the nightly words, spoken by sidekick Ed McMahon, that brought out Johnny Carson to start another episode of The Tonight Show, the still-running NBC late-night ...

Carson the Magnificent ... sent to former Tonight Show writer Michael Barrie, describing Carson as “the inscrutable national monument on constant full view.” Johnny Carson at home on July ...

whose genesis can be found in the last major interview Johnny Carson ever gave: “The Man Who Retired” by Zehme for Esquire (June 2002), where Zehme described Carson’s final Tonight Show ...

The unquestioned “King of Late Night” was the host of NBC’s “Tonight Show" from 1962 to 1992, Nebraska icon Johnny Carson. “Carson The Magnificent” by Bill Zehme should be of special ...

T he late great Johnny Carson is known as one of the funniest men of all time. For 30 years, he dominated the world of late night while hosting The Tonight Show from 1962 until 1992.

Not so with “Carson the Magnificent,” the long-awaited life of the late-night talk show legend Johnny Carson by Bill Zehme, completed by Mike Thomas. Its prologue, written by Thomas ...

Like many Thanksgiving fights, one of the most beloved moments in the history of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson began with a seemingly innocuous question about turkey. Severinsen asks the ...

It was around Christmas in 1989, when Johnny Carson held a small box up to the “Tonight Show” cameras. “What do you think this weighs?” Carson said, his wrist bending from the weight.

A tell-all new book claims there was a dark side to Johnny Carson. Mike Thompson co-authored "Carson the Magnificent." Thompson says no one can compare to Carson. Americans loved his spontaneous ...

The New Year’s Eve show at the Basie Center is canceled. Tickets will be refunded at your point of purchase, according to the Basie. "Johnny Lyon and the Asbury Jukes are an integral part of ...

The Amazing Kreskin, the famed mentalist who appeared on The Tonight Show numerous times, has died at age 89. Kreskin's manager Ryan Galway confirmed the news to Entertainment Weekly. "I know you ...

The entertainer grew to prominence in the 1970s by demonstrating his intuitive ability dozens of times on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and in live performances. "What Kreskin said at ...